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-The Alliance for Progress and the Peace Corps
- 1961-1969
- 61 percent of the respondents to an opinion survey said that they backed the president’s “handling [of] the situation in Cuba,” and his overall approval rating was 83 percent. Kennedy joked, “The worse I do, the more popular I get.”

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- Bombing campaign against North Vietnam
- March 1965- 1968
- liberals favored Johnson’s initiatives to reduce poverty and make America a more just society, but they had little sympathy for a war they believed was unnecessary to protect the country’s security and wasted precious resources.
- power did not increase

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- Normalized relations with the People’s Republic of China, after an interruption of more than 20 years
- 1972
- While most Americans were ready to applaud Nixon’s initiatives with China and Russia as a means of defusing cold war tensions, they would become critical of his machinations in ending the Vietnam War. The Watergate Scandal ruined Nixon

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- War Powers Act
- 1975
-no meaningful restrictions on a president’s power when, without consulting Congress, he sent U.S. commandos to liberate American seamen seized from the cargo ship Mayaguez by the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia’s Communist government. When the operation cost 41 military lives to rescue 39 sailors, he suffered in the court of public opinion. His significance increased because of how dumb his idea was.

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- 1980
- Sent a secret military mission into Iran in 1980 to free American hostages held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Carter could justify the secrecy as essential to the mission, but after sandstorms and a helicopter crash aborted it, confidence in independent executive action waned which made many Americans dislike him. Nothing increases, again.

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-Committed U.S. troops to actions in Lebanon and Grenada, then suffered from the Iran-Contra scandal,
- 1981-1989
-Members of his administration plotted to raise funds for anti-Communists in Nicaragua—a form of aid that Congress had explicitly outlawed. Disliked after that by Americans

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-Won a Congressional resolution supporting his decision to oust Iraqi forces from Kuwait in 1991.
-1989-1993
-At the same time, he unilaterally chose not to expand the conflict into Iraq, but even that assertion of power was seen as a bow to Congressional and public opposition to a wider war. Not popular after instigating and pushing into Iraq with more U.S. soldiers

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-Bill Clinton chose to consult with Congressional leaders on operations to enforce a U.N. no-fly zone in the former Yugoslavia
-1993-2001
- Wasn't popular after instigating terrorists that flew into the World Trade Center

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- Won Congressional resolutions backing the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq
- 2001-2009
- At the end of Bush’s term, his approval ratings, like Truman’s, fell into the twenties.

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- In 2009 he expanded into Afghanistan
- 2009-2016
- Said the war was going to end, but didn't make it come true. Many thought he was a good president for sending troops after 9/11 but it turned out for the worse.